{"id":508,"date":"2006-10-12T14:32:31","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T19:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/index.php\/user-education-is-pointless"},"modified":"2006-10-12T14:35:07","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T19:35:07","slug":"user-education-is-pointless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/user-education-is-pointless\/","title":{"rendered":"User education is pointless"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;It really is a nightmare. User education is a complete waste of time. It is about as much use as nailing jelly to a wall,&#8221; Overton said. &#8220;There is no good trying to teach them what phishing is, what rootkits are, what malware is, etc. They are not interested; they just want to do their job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Jill Sitherwood, an information security consultant at a large financial institution, has seen education both fail and succeed. &#8220;I have to believe it works,&#8221; she said. &#8220;When we give our awareness presentations, what signs to look for, I have seen a spike in the number of incidents reported by our internal users.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But online consumers are a tougher crowd to get through to.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a special page on our Web site to report security incidents. We had to shut the e-mail box because customers didn&#8217;t read (the page) and submitted general customer service queries,&#8221; Sitherwood said.<\/p>\n<p>(from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/\">ZDNet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/2100-1009_22-6125213.html\">Security expert: User education is pointless<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have been saying for years that most people are too stupid to be safely allowed near a computer, and for years I have been getting criticized for saying so. When computers can be made as safe to use &#8212; safe for the user, safe for the machine, and safe for the rest of the world &#8212; as a VCR, then and only then should they be placed in the hands of an average person. And even then, there will still be a significant number of people for whom the time will always blink <blink>12:00<\/blink>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It really is a nightmare. User education is a complete waste of time. 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